Chapter 835 The Battle of Min's Naval Battle could not catch up with the great battle between the Ottoman Navy and the Ming Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, whether it was the Dutch, or the Spaniards, the Portuguese, or even the French, the British sent their own observation teams to observe this epic naval battle up close.To be fair, this is a very unequal war.Liu Bingren declined the support of the Venetian Navy, and in Liu Bingren's view, the Venetian Navy and the Ottoman Navy belonged to the same dimension of navy.The biggest difference between them is that in order to survive, the Venetian navy dares to fight, dare to fight, and is well-trained.In the same number of cases, the Venetian navy could be pressed against the Ottoman navy.This is similar to the naval duel between Japan and the United States during World War II, although the quality of the Japanese navy's individual soldiers surpassed that of their opponent, the U.S.
Navy.However, with the industrial superiority of the United States, it can continuously produce new warships and train a large number of sailors.The Ottoman navy suffered heavy losses in the Venetian navy, there were too many recruits, the training could not keep up, and the numerical superiority could not be brought into play.In the battle with the Ming Navy, this disadvantage will be infinitely magnified.In fact, the navy of the Ottoman Empire at this time was not even as good as the Great Shimizu Division.Suffice it to say that the naval equipment of the Ottoman Empire was not bad, even for Spain, Great Britain and France, which were maritime powers, the gap was not so obvious.This was because of the problem of taking sides, because the Ottoman Empire was against the Spanish Empire, so Britain and France, including Germany, were supporting the Ottoman Empire's naval buildup.The hardware is a European sail warship, and the naval guns are also the mainstream 32-pounder guns, 42-pounderers, and even 50-pounder guns.Although the equipment was good, because of the corruption of the empire, the hereditary rank of officers, etc., especially a small Venice, the Ottoman navy became a disgrace to the Ottoman Empire.The imperial court stopped supporting, and there was no normal military spending, and the subjects looked down on it, and in front of the navy soldiers, the navy soldiers did not even dare to wear military uniforms, because once they wore naval uniforms, they could not even buy a piece of bread, or they were beaten, or they were insulted.The status of their naval soldiers is not as good as that of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, although the army of the Zhu Dynasty has no status and has no status in front of the civilian officials, but in front of the people, businessmen, craftsmen, and musicians, they are still high.In this case, the Ottoman navy is a strange existence, according to the information obtained by the Ming General Staff, all the ships of the Ottoman Empire are anchored in the port all day, all month, and all year round.Its naval officers did not live on ships at all, and most of them did not even live in barracks, but were often seen in the nearby bazaars tending to their business.The officers were either drunk or didn't know where to fool around, and some of them didn't even know how many soldiers they should have on board, and they often got lost when they got into the cabin, because they didn't get on board very often.Almost all the officers and officers we had contact with were shamelessly asking me for bribes, and they didn't seem to care if they gave money and took something from the warship......
It would be strange if such a strange army still had combat effectiveness.In this naval battle, Liu Bingren and other officers and men of the Ming Royal Navy behaved very easily, and even said that it was easier to fight a pirate than this.I want to insert a digression here, the pirate organization in the Ming Dynasty is almost not bad, and regardless of Zheng Zhilong, who is located on the pirate ceiling, even his opponent Liu Xiang, can crush a naval power like Venice in Europe.Helena finally squeezed in front of the gun position of the bow gun, she cautiously smiled at the soldiers around her, in fact, these Royal Navy soldiers were also very helpless, the relationship between Helena and Quan Xu was there, who didn't know that Helena's daughter was the third princess of the Ming Dynasty, named Princess of the Nile?
Their expedition was to lay down his fiefdom for the Nile Princess, and of course, there were dozens of military lords whose fiefs were also in the Nile Delta.Now, with the cooperation of the Royal Army and the Royal Navy, the Ming Dynasty has de facto occupied the Nile Delta, a thousand miles of fertile land.Many of their soldiers also arrived in the Nile Delta, where the climate is mild, the water is abundant, and the wildlife that lives here is abundant.With the establishment of the Ming North African Governorate, it has become the two states of Jingzhou and Johor in the Ming Dynasty, and it is still a good choice for naval soldiers to settle down here.The Royal Navy soldiers did not prevent Helena from approaching this new type of naval gun, in fact, this new type of naval gun is only relatively speaking, the 130 mm 28 times the diameter of the naval gun, is not the most advanced naval gun of the Ming Royal Navy, the most advanced naval gun is the 35 times the diameter of the Shark 4 battleship.That kind of naval gun has a longer range and more powerful power, even if it encounters a battleship like the Exocet class, it is a cannon waste, and when it encounters the main European warship, it will be either dead or crippled.The next generation of naval guns of the Ming Dynasty was not placed on the caliber and double diameter, but in order to reduce the counterweight.The total weight of the 35-fold naval gun is 16,000 catties, which is 8 tons.If it is army equipment, it is simply a disaster, even if it is placed on the battleship of the navy, it is also a big test for the battleship, the number of naval guns of the Sea Shark IV warship is far less than that of the Sea Shark III, because this kind of naval gun is too heavy.Helena looked at this naval cannon with envy, she carefully reached out and stroked it, and muttered in admiration: "What exquisite craftsmanship, such exquisite craftsmanship!"
Not even the finest craftsmen in Europe could make such a treasure......
"Helena's thought of this gave her a sense of powerlessness, this kind of cannon was extremely smooth on the surface, unpainted, but had a dark iron color, and a barrel as smooth as a mirror, and I am afraid that a fly would fall on it.And that's not all, the most important thing is that the gun can quickly and automatically return to its position after firing, which is a feature that all naval guns in Europe do not have.At this moment, Helena looked at Liu Bingren and said, "General Liu, can I shoot a shot?"
”Liu Bingren bowed and said, "Please take care of yourself!"
”Liu Bingren has absolute self-confidence, a cannon is very complicated, especially this kind of artillery with a diameter of 28 times, the rifling in the barrel is boring out of the boring machine, and then after a complex heat treatment process, even if some skilled craftsmen are built according to the gourd painting scoop, there is no way to guarantee the power and accuracy.This is a reality-tested, when science and technology develop to a certain extent, it is no longer a complex mechanical structure, but the achievement of material science, only steel alloy patents, Daming has accepted more than 1,000 kinds, which can be applied to all walks of life.Just like bearings, to be precise, the principle and structure of the bearing is not complicated, Daming can produce and manufacture bearings manufacturers at least 100 outside, but the best quality, the most durable, is precisely the whole group of Liaoyang Bearing Co., Ltd. production of bearings, almost occupy eighty percent of the market sales share, at least 200 million bearings per year.The same is true for artillery, after Quan Xu became a royal, he incorporated the gun bureau in the capital, and there were also a large number of craftsmen in it, who were very unconvinced, because in the process of technical rating, the highest obtained the third-level craftsman, and there was no one first-class craftsman, they were like using the guns they built to get Quanxu's approval.The result is very cruel, no matter how high their technology is, what an apprentice makes with a lathe is no worse than the accuracy they build by hand, the key is that the efficiency is dozens of times worse, and what is even more cruel is that the quality is simply a world of difference.If Helena can learn how to reproduce at a glance, then it deserves to be surpassed by others, you must know that just drawing more than 28 drawings of artillery, it has installed a few rooms, hundreds of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, it took several years, and the handicrafts that were completed by trial and error are not so easy to imitate.As for letting Helena fire, this is Liu Bingren's bad taste.Helena looked at the two sides of the bombardier with a wicked smile on their faces, and pointed out the location of the cannons to Helena, in fact, there was no need to indicate them, as soon as they got out of the way, Helena saw the cannonballs.Thicker than her thighs, half a person as tall as a copper-shelled cannonball, standing there, who can't see it?
This foreign girl was dumbfounded, such a cannonball, I'm afraid it's heavier than her?
She is not the reincarnation of Superwoman, how can she carry such a heavy thing!
Seeing her deflated expression, everyone was in a happy mood and laughed.Liu Bingren couldn't help laughing and laughed out loud.However, as a rear admiral of the Imperial Navy, he quickly straightened his face again: "Don't laugh, be serious!"
Now for the war!
”Four loaders, clamping the shell with a clamp, stuffed it into the chamber, then put in the ammunition pack for the propellant, and then closed the bolt.It's not that this shell needs to be reloaded neatly by four loaders, but because four people will be more efficient, and two people will just barely lift the shell, and in case of a fall, or some accident, or a death, etc., there will be a sustainable loader to go up to.As early as more than a hundred years ago, there were two outstanding admirals in the Leys family, namely Kemal Reis and Piriles, who won the Portuguese respectively and captured the Portuguese Galen ship, which made the Ottoman Navy's warship technology advance by leaps and bounds, achieving a qualitative leap.However, Krem was extremely unlucky, even more depressed, more than 1,500 warships pursued for a long time, no one was missing, but he was sunk more than 30 ships, who is fighting whom?
In fact, the Ottoman Galen ship was only one knot slower than the Exocet warship, and the speed of less than two knots became an insurmountable curse.Can't catch up.